Late last Friday night a mattress was dumped on my street. I knew that the City would not call out the 24/7 standby worker for that so I called the Concord corporation yard Monday morning, and the mattress was gone within half an hour.

People can be pathetic. People that do this type of thing and don’t bat an eyelid because they already have many other problems going on as well. Criminals, abusers, alcoholics, too poor to care etc. etc. No excuse for this but if they could give a damn about themselves, they sure as heel won’t give a damn about their surroundings and the planet…….

This is the “broken window” theory of urban decay in action. Leave a window broken in a building and within a few days more windows will be broken out, followed by grafitti, trash dumping, break-ins, etc. The decay spreads rapidly once it sets in. Before long, an entire neighborhood is permanently blighted.
This is what happens when overly-generous pension plans for retired public employees start consuming money that should be available for current employees and the services they should be providing. Even being the highest taxed state in the country, we’ll just keep falling farther behind. Fiscal mismanagement isn’t just numbers on a page. It has real world consequences.

Whether the idea that this type of behavior is insanely disgusting or not is a matter of perspective. Personally, I want to live in a world where this is considered to be insanely disgusting.

If you want to live in a world where everything looks nice and well maintained, all it takes is a little work from a lot of us to make it happen. If people pulled their heads out of their anatomy and made a little difference every day, we’d have a much nicer city.

@ Sacto Rob…that explains the whole Monument Blvd area…It started at Virginia Lane in the late 80’s and now it’s spread to the whole area over there…and now it’s started to over through Down town and on Clayton Road…not sure I buy the fiscal mismanagement but we learned about this theory in college…it goes the other way also…If you start to clean-up one part it spreads and eventually the “core” that created it breaks down and moves away….look at what’s heppeneing to downtown Pittsburg…Maybe Concord could take some ques and start on Detroit Ave…a man can dream right?

I find that contacting the executives of any company or local government with your requests/issues is that they are addressed in a more timely fashion. Contacting them puts the issues on THEIR radar and they are COMPELLED to follow up as a matter of professional management (Obama is excluded from this approach cuz he’s a plain a-hole about addressing the core issues).

As far as how disgusting the human race can be we live in Concord (not the worst neighborbood but not the best either) and have found where a tweaker and/or homeless person has hid around the corner and defecated on the side of our home. People are sick!

“yes, but they are the same ones that I posted about on the 28th of December.”

So what you’re saying is you can organize a neighborhood to complain about their neighbors, find a lost animal, post pure gossip, but you’re effectiveness ends with bitching? You’ve had two weeks Mayor and you haven’t done anything either. Instead of running a forum for whiners(which is really all this is and ever will be), get some friends and clean it up. If you want to make a statement do it and bill the city. But really this whole post pedantic and childish. Do something instead of bitching all the time. That goes for the whole lot of you. Oops, gotta go. Someone’s spying over their neighbors fence and think they see drugs. THAT’S NEWS!

The Administration is trying to promote this Saturday as a national day of service. Regardless of which side of the political fence one resides on, this sounds like a good idea to me, so why not act? I checked the web site (http://action.2013pic.org/service/serve), however, and there isn’t anything in the concord/clayton area. How about posting an event for cleanup of the area? I have a POS truck that I use for home projects that certainly wouldn’t get any stinkier, and I’d volunteer my time if another person or two could lend a hand, help get a list of places that need to be cleaned up, and get the dump process organized and fees waived for the cleanup.

I called the city about this and was told there’s nothing they could do. The lady I spoke with informed me they had received complaints about this before. When the city crew arrived to pick up the couches they found some odd markings on one of the couches and called the police. She went on to tell me the police taped off the area and after determining the couches were not stolen took samples of the couchs. The forensics came back saying no foul play was involved, however the couch was determine to be very old, and the crime scene tape was removed. An anthropologist from UCSF was called. The anthropologist found these were not simply couches dumped by the side of the road but rather the remains of an old Miwok couch burial ground. Please feel free to go by and enjoy our local treasure but remember, It’s illegal to disturb the remains.